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Tuesday, September 01, 2015

Professors Threaten Bad Grades For Saying ‘Illegal Alien,’ ‘Male,’ ‘Female’

"Students will come to recognize how white privilege functions in everyday social structures and institutions.”

Multiple professors at Washington State University have explicitly told students their grades will suffer if they use terms such as “illegal alien,” "male," and “female,” or if they fail to “defer” to non-white students.

According to the syllabus for Selena Lester Breikss’ “Women & Popular Culture” class, students risk a failing grade if they use any common descriptors that Breikss considers “oppressive and hateful language.”

The punishment for repeatedly using the banned words, Breikss warns, includes “but [is] not limited to removal from the class without attendance or participation points, failure of the assignment, and— in extreme cases— failure for the semester.”

Much like in Selena Breikss’s classroom, students taking Professor Rebecca Fowler’s “ Introduction to Comparative Ethnic Studies” course will see their grades suffer if they use the term “illegal alien” in their assigned writing.

According to her syllabus, students will lose one point every time they use the words “illegal alien” or “illegals” rather than the preferred terms of “‘undocumented’ migrants/immigrants/persons.” Throughout the course, Fowler says, students will “come to recognize how white privilege functions in everyday social structures and institutions.”

White students in Professor John Streamas’s “ Introduction to Multicultural Literature” class, are expected to “defer” to non-white students, among other community guidelines, if they want “to do well in this class.”

In the guidelines in his syllabus, Streamas elaborates that he requires students to “reflect” on their grasp of history and social relations “by respecting shy and quiet classmates and by deferring to the experiences of people of color.”

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7 comments:

Anonymous said...

Ha ha ha AMD to think A college education once meant something

Steve said...

"Selena Lester Breikss’ “Women & Popular Culture” class"

Shouldn't that be titled, "People &..."

She needs to kick herself out of her own class!

And to think parents have to pay good hard earned money for this drivel being spooned out to students!

Anonymous said...

And now the professors are confirming the young adults. College is almost useless anymore. Hard to find work with a degree unless you become a teacher. Which is still about useless. All curriculums have a liberal agende.

Anonymous said...

Total BS! Just like those idiots in Washington agreeing to the nuke deal with Iran. It appears that our Country is going to Hell and so sad after our Brave men and women fought for us in World War 2 and now everything is politically incorrect. We were once looked upon as the greatest Nation on earth and now we are laughed at by the rest of the world. We are for sure slowly going down the tubes and with such a high percentage on the dole it is simply unsustainable.

Anonymous said...

"We were once looked upon as the greatest Nation on earth and now we are laughed at by the rest of the world," said 9:00 am

This is simply not true. Anybody who has come into contact with people from other countries know the respect and love they have for this country. This includes the Iranian people if not their government.

Anonymous said...

Sue this kook.

Anonymous said...

Sounds like some of the higher educational institutions needs to be closed! Their job is to further educate young adults in specifics fields. Their job is not to 'brainwash'/'indoctrinate' these adults.